@@Rosewolf29 i do one better quite a while ago i lost some regal movie tickets i got for christmas so now when i get anything like that i scan both sides and put the scans on my home server
Things to do when you win a jackpot lottery. 1. Tell NO ONE that you won until you've done everything else on this list. That may be tough but this is usually when people make the biggest mistakes. You may tell one person that you trust, but will they keep that a secret? Please. It's much more likely they will tell 5 people, who tell 20 people who... ends up being someone willing to kill to get your money. Tell no one until you've not only received the money but have set up your finances. 2. Obviously, take a selfie with the lottery ticket -- and make sure the numbers are clearly visible. 3. Contact a lawyer and/or draw up a will. You can create a temporary will online, too, for free. You can revise it later, but if something should happen to you during the time you're waiting to receive the money (usually 4-6 weeks) you may end up giving it to your ex-husband because your old will stipulated him as your beneficiary. Or something along those lines. Oh, and make sure to include a clause that if you should die in any kind of sudden or unexplained way, all the money will go to charity. Don't disclose which charity, except to your lawyer. Also, do not tell anyone named in the will that they are named in the will. 4. Depending on the lottery and the rules (it varies by state/country), decide how you want to receive the money, i.e., all at once or annuitized. Most advise to take the cash. That is, all at once, but there are dangers to that. For one thing, you can lose it all that much faster, too. But, beware. Annuitized amounts can be lost if you sign them over to someone. This is all before you cash in your ticket. When you are ready to turn in the ticket, do NOT go to your local convenience store. GO to the state lottery office to fill out the form. This will ensure your privacy locally. With some lotteries you can now remain anonymous, which is a good security strategy and one that should be done. Scammers and every charity (both real and fake) come out of the woodwork once your name is published-- they're waiting to find out who won the latest lottery. Distant relatives and friends from the 5th grade also tend to show up unexpectedly. Everyone seems to think that you're supposed to share your winnings with them. 5. Bonus. During that interim of 4-6 weeks, the first thing to do is set up a budget. Yes, a budget. Because no matter how much money you're getting, it's a finite amount, which means you could end up broke again if you don't have a plan. If you have no idea how to set up a budget, you can ask your banker to help you draw one up. Or, you can waste a lot of money going to a financial planner. But most bankers are more than capable of doing the same thing, usually without pushing their own agenda in terms of investments. As for investments, remember there are only two investments you can count on : Gold and Real Estate. Why? Because they never entirely lose all their value. Their value may go up or down but they are never worthless. Unlike so many stocks and bonds, etc. Oh, and? Starting your own business is one of the riskiest investments there is. 95% of them fail within the first 2 years. Also, before giving to any charities, do some research and learn which ones are legitimate and which spend more on promotion and salaries than actually doing any good. Also, figure out how much you do want to give to anyone before you tell them of your big win. And most of all remember the wisest words I ever heard on this topic : Where there's money, there's people looking to steal it.
I know a number of people who have their own business. I don't know anyone who went broke. It probably won't make you a fortune, but you won't starve. Minuses: no days off, no insurance, sick days, and an insanely high tax rate of like 20+% You can also get hurt and be screwed. Gold is worthless to you if shite hits the fan. It'll be food, firearms/ammo and fresh water. Plus gas. I don't see how that's useful. You can tell people they're involved if you die, but just tell them it's not much. Like to take care of your pet costs, that they'll take them and can't just kill them off to get your money. I know someone that the family tried that! My friend took the dogs. I'd pay the house off and get a car that's a few years old. Low miles for its age and garage kept. Unless it's fairly new, then higher miles is ok. Like 45k or so for the first year or two. I got a great deal on a few cars like that. Mercury Sable and Challenger R/T. Both had 45k and they were just over a year old. Cars are WAY overpriced now. If I could get a driver that drives better than the average Uber driver (out of 3 rides, 2 were unnecessarily scary!)...actually, I'd ride w the average Nigerian cab driver much faster than any rideshare. I've rarely had a bad cab driver. This is just me. Also had a business 33 years. Trick is to NOT have any overhead. Or very little. Use a box truck if you want a restaurant or say a small store or bookshop. Or a school bus. Then, assuming it's in decent running shape, it's MAYBE 5-10k purchase price. Gas is VERY high w these, about 6mpg, about what you get in a Ferrari. Parts cost more, too. Not sure about insurance. It's not commercial unless you're driving people for money, tho. I'd buy LAND way before gold. Houses require a lot. They take money in constant repairs. Mortgage interest. Cleaning...land is cheap in comparison. If you're smart, you can build houses and sell the house, but NOT the land under it. I'd think many smaller places would be beneficial, since A. A lot of people can't afford a big house and the costs, and like investing, a lot of smaller bits add up to a more expensive whole. I'd like mutual funds and certain individual stocks, like McDonald's and such. If you keep them long enough, you can buy a car w the proceeds. You don't need a brokerage for a number of them, either. People being mortgaged several times makes me extremely nervous. Like, put in 150k to house A, then get a loan to get another house, House B. That's assuming it's going to go up at a fast rate of speed FOREVER, and if you read about the crash of 2008, you'll see that's not true. Or Detroit. There's a book called Detroit. As well as the drug impact in a book called Dreamland. The 2008 crash book is The Forclosure of America. Library has them all. Rule 1 is the law of large numbers. Large numbers get less likely to go up indefinitely. Real estate is tricky. In your favor is everyone needs to live somewhere. But at 7.5%, that's a LOT more money a month. Most people don't have much down payment, either. So, again. Because most people don't THINK, they buy for the relationship they have and can ONLY work that way BECAUSE there are 2 adults, both WORKING. If someone gets hurt, they are in trouble.
this is very similar to what my mother says. she even told me if i won and didn't tell her until i got the money, she wouldn't be upset. she raised me by herself. thanks for the info!
@@maxineb9598The problem is less that they've changed and more that they have had bad money-managing habits to begin with. To make an analogy, giving someone a smock and necessary paint supplies doesn't automatically turn that person into an artist. So, it stands to reason that giving someone a bunch of money doesn't automatically turn that person into a better money handler or manager, especially when they have already shown to have bad money managing skills from the get-go by, ironically, spending money on lotteries.
The lottery company that refused to pay is being a little shady. They will have a record of the transaction, the card used to pay for it, the numbers that where entered, the date, the time, etc. They just did not want to pay.
you can pay in cash as well. the thing is the winner has to proof hes thge winner otherswise everyone could claim to be the winner and investigation would leave the lottery bankruped
@@Corrie-Lee Most people don't have an original thought of their own - they don't get encouraged to think and plan ahead just as you say, leaving them directionless and capricious. No wonder the majority of big game winners wind up back where they started. I think with me if I won something stupid, I'd probably indulge on something big; say I won a hundred million, I'd go nuts with one, but then once that novelty was done I'd do as similar as you - throw it into savings and live on the interest.
The guy who kept leaving half a million in dollars in a suitcase in the car was a complete divvy, or as Be Amazed hilariously put it "He was also extremely charitable and not just to burglars" 😮😂😂😂😂
Probably not as bad as the guy that lost a hard drive containing bitcoins that would today total about a billion dollars. The lottery ticket is gone forever so you can at least take comfort in there being no hope. That hard drive is still out there somewhere. Just the thought of it existing in a pile of trash somewhere but you never being able to find it must keep you up at night.
I would have taken multiple photos and photocopies of my ticket. In addition, the original ticket would be like a second skin to me until I drove to the lottery office.
I'm currently in complete bankruptcy. I'm not living on the street thanks to a friend that is almost as broken as I am. If I win the lottery, the day I cash out I would go to a good hotel for a good night sleep and meal (I haven't had one in years. I'm hungry all the time) Next day I'll take my beloved son to the movies, eat hamburgers and the toy store. On third day I would pay all my debts. Then I would have a four day holidays on the beach, just me, after which would buy a good functional car. Nothing fancy. With my mind in peace then I would buy a comfortable house (not a mansion but not too small either) I would have a barbecue with my closest and dearest friends on my new house, and then, finally would make a plan to keep the remaining money stable for the rest of my life ensuring a money trouble free life for my disabled son
Honestly, I'd be terrified if I won the lottery. Where I live I can't take the prize anonymously and I'd be busy trying to hire an advisor and/or a lawyer while trying to close down ALL my current emails and current phone number while trying to get new ones. Etc... etc...
Most of what you'd do, you SHOULD be doing, anyway. Investing with someone legit, like Fidelity. Having a decent car that's reliable and doesn't eat money. Either in gas or maintain. A decent house in a nice area where you're safe and have everything you need. That's not a 4 million dollar house where the taxes are 40k. Figure out what you'd need, invest wisely, do some math on what you spend NOW, and go from there, assuming at least 10% increases a year. Cut back wherever and whenever possible. If you want something extreme RENT IT. DO NOT BUY IT. Think an RV or a Ferrari. Nobody needs either, and they EAT gas, never mind repair and insurance costs. A few days or a week would be plenty and it's not insanely expensive. Last I checked, it was like 2,500. So, not cheap. But doable. Then, when it's 60k a year to run it (hello. Ferrari), that won't be your problem. Track day is once around the track. That was maybe a few hundred bucks. Worth it.
Evelyn seemed to not deserve to be called dumb, just a normal lottery victim that didn't draw the line on spending and giving to "needy" friends and family who want a slice of the pie. Her investment in her kids schooling being considered a "failed" investment sounds like such a jab at her kid 😆
Money isn't the root of all evil. PEOPLE are! It's the person himself or herself that has that kind of attitude about money,that's the problem. It's like saying guns (themselves with nobody to hold on to it,and pull the trigger) don't kill people. PEOPLE with guns kill people.
@@Randy-tp5lm No, money isn't the root of all evil, you're right. The quote from St. Paul states that it's the love of money that's the root of all evil.
The laws across the pond regarding minimum legal age to purchase lottery tickets must differ if Callie was only 16 when she won. At the very least, her parents should have put her winnings in an account to be secure and inaccessible until she turned 18 (or something)
I agree, she should have been set for life, even in an account with just 6% interest a year is over £100,000 and you are not touching your winnings. Surely you can have a good time and pay your bills on £2000 a week. Since October 2021 the law as changed for playing and you now need to be 18 years old instead of 16.
How do you know it would have made any difference? Most of the people who went broke are older than her. She would have wound up broke if she had been 21 when she won. Some people simply have no self control.
@@wildnfree101 What kind of account boasts "just 6%" ?? Where do you even find one of these, let alone more than 6% (since it's "just" 6%). Also, although winnings are not subject to tax, the interest it generates is totally subject to it. And the government is taking a healthy 30+% of it.
Years ago i helped a young woman who won -(after taxes - $30,000). As a realtor, I found her a manufactured home in a park that fit her budget. Her credit wasn’t good and the park wouldn’t approve her because they were worried about her ability to pay the monthly fees. Also many family member were asking her to money. We brainstormed. To deal with both problems, she prepaid the park rent for several years and I helped her estimate what her monthly expenses might be. She then opened a separate savings account and deposited several years of future expenses plus some money for emergencies. She now knew how much money she had left to be comfortable helping others and felt she would be honest when she said NO -I can’t help. It was a valuable lesson for both of us
There was a case in th UK, where 2 men stole a debit card and won either 2 or 4 million on a scratchcard, using said debit card. When they called Camelot to secure their winnings, they were asked for bank account details so it could be deposited. They replied they didnt have an account, (which raised concerns due to the method in which they had bought the ticket), the jackpot payout was refused and i believe they were also charged with the theft. Not so much proof of karma existing, more so stupidity
I think most people think they'd be more responsible with a lotto win than they actually would be. I imagine it's easy to get swept up in the sudden abundance. Most people I talk to about it say they would throw a massive party, then set themselves up with a home and a car, pay off debts and help out family and friends, then travel and live off the rest, but most of those conversations assumes a massive windfall - more than 10 million dollars. A lot of jackpot wins come in between 1-5 million dollars (I'm in Australia), so by the time you've bought yourself a house (between $450 000 - $1 500 000 depending on proximity to the city) and a car ($15 000 - $50 000, more if you want new) a good chunk of that is gone. You've also likely got debts to pay off which might be a few grand, or over 100k, and if you won just 1 million and were very conservative with the previous, you might have enough for a holiday and to cover bills for a while, but you'd be realistically needing to go back to work. If you had a bit more, you could probably afford to help out friends and family a bit too, but realistically? That money is gone. It's still a life-changing amount, sure, but with how expensive everything is? It's not a setup for a luxury lifestyle, it might just help ease some of the crippling financial burden. Even with a much bigger windfall, if you are concerned with helping your family and loved ones also get set up and debt free, a lot of that money is going to go and fast. You also can't dismiss the drama that comes with money - it really makes people show their true colours.
Um, your 2nd and 3rd items are the reason why so many go broke: they buy ginormous houses that they can't afford to maintain and start acquiring luxury cars to the point that some angered their neighbors. The neighbors complain to the police that their cars are taking up all the lanes in front of their houses!
@@largol33t12 I'm just talking about a 2-3 bedroom home and a standard new-not-used car. You can get a 3-bedroom shoebox of a house for around $450 000, but if you want to be close to public transport, in a good neighbourhood or closer into the city, you're looking at closer to $800 000. If you want to be inner city with a family home, you're up to around $1.5 million. For a car that is new or has less than 50 000 kms on it, you're starting at $30 000 - that's for an automatic vehicle targeted at families. So at the lower end of that spectrum, you've got a family home on a block of units and a sedan with 50 000 kms on it for just shy of $500 000 - out of a small jackpot win of say, $1 million, that's half gone before you even look at paying off student debts, credit card debts or think about holidays. It's still a lifechanging situation for most people who would never be able to dream of buying their own property ever (I'm in that category) but it's not nearly the luxury lifestyle that that sort of money is still promoted as.
@@Bookluver29 The point I'm trying to say is that too many of these lottery winners start out fine then their spending goes completely out of control. None of the lottery winners who are broke bought an AVERAGE size house like you suggested. They instead took out a mortgage on a $2 million 5,000 sq ft house with swimming pool and 4 car garage! And that's after buying 2-3 luxury cars!
@@largol33t12 That's fair, and I agree that the examples shown in this video back that - my main point was that you don't have to hit those levels of extremes to find yourself in debt or to burn through a lottery win very easily. It's just more entertaining to focus on the ones who went really off the rails.
What I wonder is why the money went to the police and not the family who's dead mothers credit card was used to purchase it. I mean were they just left with the debt while the police binged on donuts and coffee?
The problem here is, in some states (countries), it is legally required to have your name and contact info PUBLICLY AVAILABLE if you win the lottery. People will look you up, and do whatever they can to take a piece of the win away from you. I don't even want to know how many frivalouse law suites there are against lottery winners....with the one suing pushing to simply have it "settled out of court."...aka....they win.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 I never understood why some lottery winners who KNOW they did nothing illegal/morally wrong settle out of court. Hire a lawyer and countersue. The other party won't have $200 an hour to hire a good lawyer anyway so it's a matter of numbers...
I grew up near Whittaker, and a mutual friend said that the briefcase full of money was stolen out of his car while he was in a strip club. They said he was a big spender there, and would go out to his car to get more cash when he ran out in the club, which is how people there knew he kept cash in his car. They also said that it happened more than once that money was stolen out of his car during his visits to the club.
I don't know if you covered this one before, but there was a lottery winner notorious in Britain some years back that the papers dubbed "The Lottery Lout" and "King Chav". He was a construction worker who won the lottery jackpot. As a result, he quit his job, bought a mansion and used the land to host go karting and parties on the regular. Eventually, between his expenses and whatever else, he soon blew through his winnings in a matter of months before having to beg for his old job back. When he was questioned, the Lout said "If I could, I would do it all again" which is indeed stupid, but at the same time, fair play
About 30 years ago, rumors were circulating about a guy who won "several" million dollars in the State Lotto. He always dreamed of being a cowboy, so he built a huge log cabin (with all the bells and whistles), two oversized pickup trucks, and built a barn for four horses, then bought the horses. Two years later, everything went to auction. The guy was never heard from again. ( I know this, because I passed that guy's place everyday on my way to work.)
Back in 2017 in South Africa we had a huge powerball jackpot about $15 500 000 for a Saturday night draw and on Monday someone claimed to have a winning ticket, after some time the national lottery found out that the winning numbers were played on the Sunday after the draw.
@@y_fam_goeglyd, I believe if you pick your own numbers it will go through nonetheless, the guy just didn't think they would check the time and date, he didn't get any money and got banned from claiming anything from the national lottery for 5 years
Jack Whittaker's lottery story is even more tragic than the video suggests. While he was fending off sexual harassment lawsuits, his son in law died of a drug overdose in his house. It ALMOST makes me wonder if lottery winners are right claiming there is a lottery curse...
I would actually take 75% of the money and give it to charity (human and animal welfare) and let my family take the other 24% with me getting 1% to buy socks
It is now, but was it then 2005? And in that state? I do remember getting declined the ticket with my card in NJ 2010+. I had to clear out my order to pay for the ticket with my change. And then do a separate transaction for my other products.
I'd probably be like the lady who accidentally put her lottery ticket through the wash... I don't usually check my pockets before putting my laundry in, let alone putting it in the dryer too. Anyway, there would be a lot of things I'd do if I won the lottery, but for the most part it would go to charities like boys & girls club, children's hospital, little people's club and leukemia lymphoma society. All of which I've donated to a bit of money when I can. Stay frosty and stay safe!
I was reading an article about this couple who hit 4 million and were crying how you couldn't "live" off of 4 mil in this economy and how sometimes they wish they never won and they could go back to working, like our hearts were supposed to bleed for them, you didn't have to quit your job and their biggest complaint was because they couldn't travel the world like they thought they could
Meanwhile, that amount for me would probably enable me to retire, set up a secure investment fund, and live off the interest for the rest of my life. If I had a handful of millions, I'm confident I'd know how to maintain it without going broke. If I won hundreds of millions, I'm less sure I'd keep my good sense. I like to think I would, but everyone who's ever won the lottery seems to feel the same way until they actually do. Suffice it to say, I don't think anyone should be complaining about cost of living or wishing they could go back to work (because what's stopping them from finding a job?) after winning millions. If they invested even half of that money, it's possible they could still live their world adventuring dreams someday. It just wouldn't happen immediately. Plus, if the cost of living really is an issue where they've chosen to live (especially if they had a lavish home built for themselves, compounding the problem through taxes and upkeep), they can probably find a place where the cost of living is lower.
I have a list of things I would attend to if I were to win. However, knowing myself, I'm sure I would eventually go off the deep end and end up penniless... just as I am now.
Lawyer up, find a reputable accounting firm, don't gamble, don't do drugs, don't drink heavy, stick to a budget, learn to say "NO", and don't make any financial decisions without consulting you lawyers and accounting team. Lottery win or high paying job, this will help you keep your money
Anybody else want to win so they can go save all the homeless people? If I won, (finally bought a ticket), I found many young families that deserve WAY better. I wanna be santa.❤
Yeah, NO. Don't go there. It's always kids who haven't seen some shite like old people have. They're like friggin pigeons. You'll give abd they'll p*ss it away and come back and back and back to mooch more and NEVER get a better job or training to do so! City colleges are RIGHT THERE. Free!! Sally is RIGHT THERE. Never help any adult do stuff they CAN and SHOULD do themselves! It will NOT pay off. Trust the old people. You'd just be buying drugs.
If I'd won the lottery, I'd largely just try to use it to survive, pay off debts, etc. If I have money left over from that, though, then I might go for a few things that I want. Of course, I never did trust gambling or the lottery by any means, though, with stories like these being exactly why, so while you can't win it without doing it, you also can't lose everything in an addiction to it without doing it. I just don't see the reward being worth the immense risk.
I do not understand how these people don’t immediately think about how they could make more money off their winnings. You were literally handed a free ride to wealth to make even more money easily.
If I won, I put most of it in a savings account, pay off any bills I had, invest half, and buy a lot of dogs and cats. Better than leaving them in shelters.
I won a lottery with a max price of 9k - it was a cheap $1 ticket from a gas station - and I won an astonishing $1 from it, at least I didn't end up losing any money 🤣
The one that boils my blood is the woman who bought the lottery ticket with her boyfriend's dead mother's credit card. The money should've become inheritance and given to her son, not taken by the police. Beyond that, it's sad that so many of these people don't think about the future. A few of them did, but not in a proper way. While some indulgences (at least of the legal variety like the houses and cars) are fine, they should've been setting aside a good portion of those winnings to live off of.
I have always been very careful with my money. I had to be since I raised my 3 children on my own with no help from anyone. I was not one to ask or borrow money from anyone and only had minimum wage jobs. Paying my rent, food, then things for my children didn't leave any money for me. I went to second hand stores to buy my clothes, but I tried to buy better clothes for my children so they wouldn't be laughed at at school like I was by wearing hand-me-downs when I was growing up. My son died suddenly last year of a heart attack. He was only 37 years old. I had a 30 thousand dollars insurance on him which I haven't even touched yet which I had been paying for since he was 12 years old. I'm scared to touch it in case in the future an emergency pops up and I would be in need of it. If I ever won it rich I would not give any money to any of my family members except for maybe 1 brother because he is like me and would bend over backwards to help someone. The only time I would see a family member is when they wanted something and never gave anything in return. They would come to my town to visit their friends but never stop off to say hi to me. I would also help out the one true friend I had for the past 35 years. Though I only get to see her maybe once every 5 years now since we live in different provinces now, she has never used me and we both know that no matter what, we are there for each other. She is like me, a hard worker. All I really want is a small cabin in the woods by a lake or river with a wood stove and of course the internet. LOL I love exploring the woods and fishing. =)
I guess when you have the money you can eat as much tasty food as you want? Plus to be fair, stress definitely will cause you to gain a lot of weight even if you don't stress eat. The way most of them lost their winnings, it sounds like they were very stressed.
4:43🤔 Excuse me but, how do you explain that in my country, every now and then we read on the news that someone has won the lottery, but we NEVER read about someone who's been crushed by a meteor?
The best part about these type of stories is that if any one of us wins the lottery we have the knowledge to not make these exact same mistakes, now that Biden's plan to eliminate student debt got canceled the first thing I'm gonna do is pay it off, it's the only way I can... and that will be my only chance too 😓💸🏢
Being close to winning and not winning reminded me of a stag do I went to, me and some friends went to a horse racing place and we pooled our money together on a bet, and chose a horse together, and my bro went and placed the bet, but when he got back we realised we didn't have the 10 to 1 bet slip we wanted, but instead the woman had given him a different 100 to 1 bet slip, so we quickly ran back and swapped our bet to the 1 we actually wanted just before the bets were closed, we watched her rip up the old bet and throw it in the bin, IMAGINE our luck, the 100 to 1 horse won ... we would have won like £3000, we were so annoyed with ourselves
Oof, I crinched when the anonymous lady lost her lottery ticket in the laundry. 😱😰😬😵😩😞😖. If I won the lottery, I'd get a house away from too many people and enjoy the peace of the country side as I did during my childhood. I would also travel to certain places I've dreamed of seeing for real, mostly natural landmarks.
Sounds like heaven. Living in paradise. To away from the increasing human population that's so annoying nowdays,is priceless. Living in the countryside isn't easy if you don't have protection from the people that'd want to do you harm. County police aren't always reliable. And there will always be people that are either curious or nosy. It's easier to live on a ranch. And to have trusted helpers.
Can’t make me feel bad haha I would love to win the lotto. I feel like the wrong kind of people win except for that little old lady that got swindled. Her heart was in the right place
You know what i would buy if i ever win any lotteries? I would buy a garden tractor and a trailer for it. That's literally everything i would buy if i ever win a lottery.
Money comes and goes. Being very responsible is a goal and the people who lost it all are probably sorry, but on the other hand if you got to do things and have adventures you would never have been able to experience, esp while being young and healthy enough to enjoy it…well all we really take to our graves is the life we lived, not our bank account.
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I feel bad for the person who accidentally put her lottery ticket in the washing machine that seemed disappointing
Remember take a snapshot of front and back of your ticket. Also, sign the back as soon as you purchase 🙏🤣
Pictures & videos might save your ticket 🎫
Now- the store that sells the ticket gets a cut so it seems the store would have a record of the ticket being sold and exactly when.
I don’t. How dumb do you have to be to do that?
Understatement of the century
I feel so much for the poor woman who washed her ticket...it made my stomach churn just listening to her story.
That one and 22:17, trusting someone who claims to be helping people but is just sponging off your winnings. Disgusting.
That’s why I check the pockets of my clothes before putting them in the washer.
Boo hoo that’s what she gets now she’s back to being broke alotmofmyou women don’t deserve shi
wth does churn mean
@@Rosewolf29
i do one better quite a while ago i lost some regal movie tickets i got for christmas
so now when i get anything like that i scan both sides and put the scans on my home server
Things to do when you win a jackpot lottery.
1. Tell NO ONE that you won until you've done everything else on this list. That may be tough but this is usually when people make the biggest mistakes. You may tell one person that you trust, but will they keep that a secret? Please. It's much more likely they will tell 5 people, who tell 20 people who... ends up being someone willing to kill to get your money. Tell no one until you've not only received the money but have set up your finances.
2. Obviously, take a selfie with the lottery ticket -- and make sure the numbers are clearly visible.
3. Contact a lawyer and/or draw up a will. You can create a temporary will online, too, for free. You can revise it later, but if something should happen to you during the time you're waiting to receive the money (usually 4-6 weeks) you may end up giving it to your ex-husband because your old will stipulated him as your beneficiary. Or something along those lines. Oh, and make sure to include a clause that if you should die in any kind of sudden or unexplained way, all the money will go to charity. Don't disclose which charity, except to your lawyer. Also, do not tell anyone named in the will that they are named in the will.
4. Depending on the lottery and the rules (it varies by state/country), decide how you want to receive the money, i.e., all at once or annuitized. Most advise to take the cash. That is, all at once, but there are dangers to that. For one thing, you can lose it all that much faster, too. But, beware. Annuitized amounts can be lost if you sign them over to someone.
This is all before you cash in your ticket. When you are ready to turn in the ticket, do NOT go to your local convenience store. GO to the state lottery office to fill out the form. This will ensure your privacy locally. With some lotteries you can now remain anonymous, which is a good security strategy and one that should be done. Scammers and every charity (both real and fake) come out of the woodwork once your name is published-- they're waiting to find out who won the latest lottery. Distant relatives and friends from the 5th grade also tend to show up unexpectedly. Everyone seems to think that you're supposed to share your winnings with them.
5. Bonus. During that interim of 4-6 weeks, the first thing to do is set up a budget. Yes, a budget. Because no matter how much money you're getting, it's a finite amount, which means you could end up broke again if you don't have a plan. If you have no idea how to set up a budget, you can ask your banker to help you draw one up. Or, you can waste a lot of money going to a financial planner. But most bankers are more than capable of doing the same thing, usually without pushing their own agenda in terms of investments.
As for investments, remember there are only two investments you can count on : Gold and Real Estate. Why? Because they never entirely lose all their value. Their value may go up or down but they are never worthless. Unlike so many stocks and bonds, etc. Oh, and? Starting your own business is one of the riskiest investments there is. 95% of them fail within the first 2 years.
Also, before giving to any charities, do some research and learn which ones are legitimate and which spend more on promotion and salaries than actually doing any good. Also, figure out how much you do want to give to anyone before you tell them of your big win.
And most of all remember the wisest words I ever heard on this topic : Where there's money, there's people looking to steal it.
I know a number of people who have their own business. I don't know anyone who went broke.
It probably won't make you a fortune, but you won't starve. Minuses: no days off, no insurance, sick days, and an insanely high tax rate of like 20+% You can also get hurt and be screwed.
Gold is worthless to you if shite hits the fan. It'll be food, firearms/ammo and fresh water. Plus gas.
I don't see how that's useful.
You can tell people they're involved if you die, but just tell them it's not much. Like to take care of your pet costs, that they'll take them and can't just kill them off to get your money. I know someone that the family tried that! My friend took the dogs.
I'd pay the house off and get a car that's a few years old. Low miles for its age and garage kept. Unless it's fairly new, then higher miles is ok. Like 45k or so for the first year or two. I got a great deal on a few cars like that. Mercury Sable and Challenger R/T. Both had 45k and they were just over a year old.
Cars are WAY overpriced now. If I could get a driver that drives better than the average Uber driver (out of 3 rides, 2 were unnecessarily scary!)...actually, I'd ride w the average Nigerian cab driver much faster than any rideshare. I've rarely had a bad cab driver.
This is just me. Also had a business 33 years. Trick is to NOT have any overhead. Or very little. Use a box truck if you want a restaurant or say a small store or bookshop. Or a school bus.
Then, assuming it's in decent running shape, it's MAYBE 5-10k purchase price. Gas is VERY high w these, about 6mpg, about what you get in a Ferrari. Parts cost more, too.
Not sure about insurance. It's not commercial unless you're driving people for money, tho.
I'd buy LAND way before gold. Houses require a lot. They take money in constant repairs. Mortgage interest. Cleaning...land is cheap in comparison.
If you're smart, you can build houses and sell the house, but NOT the land under it.
I'd think many smaller places would be beneficial, since A. A lot of people can't afford a big house and the costs, and like investing, a lot of smaller bits add up to a more expensive whole.
I'd like mutual funds and certain individual stocks, like McDonald's and such. If you keep them long enough, you can buy a car w the proceeds. You don't need a brokerage for a number of them, either.
People being mortgaged several times makes me extremely nervous. Like, put in 150k to house A, then get a loan to get another house, House B.
That's assuming it's going to go up at a fast rate of speed FOREVER, and if you read about the crash of 2008, you'll see that's not true. Or Detroit. There's a book called Detroit. As well as the drug impact in a book called Dreamland.
The 2008 crash book is The Forclosure of America. Library has them all.
Rule 1 is the law of large numbers. Large numbers get less likely to go up indefinitely.
Real estate is tricky. In your favor is everyone needs to live somewhere. But at 7.5%, that's a LOT more money a month. Most people don't have much down payment, either.
So, again. Because most people don't THINK, they buy for the relationship they have and can ONLY work that way BECAUSE there are 2 adults, both WORKING.
If someone gets hurt, they are in trouble.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 bro wrote a whole essay 😭😭
this is very similar to what my mother says. she even told me if i won and didn't tell her until i got the money, she wouldn't be upset. she raised me by herself. thanks for the info!
Saved for of if I ever win 😅
Money doesn't change people, but it's good for showing you who they really are.
Money certainly changes people. You only have to look at the number of lotto winners whose lives went down the drain after that win.
Of you believe that you've never known poverty.
@@maxineb9598The problem is less that they've changed and more that they have had bad money-managing habits to begin with.
To make an analogy, giving someone a smock and necessary paint supplies doesn't automatically turn that person into an artist. So, it stands to reason that giving someone a bunch of money doesn't automatically turn that person into a better money handler or manager, especially when they have already shown to have bad money managing skills from the get-go by, ironically, spending money on lotteries.
True to that
@@ShinAk1raSamaCouldn't have said that better
The lottery company that refused to pay is being a little shady. They will have a record of the transaction, the card used to pay for it, the numbers that where entered, the date, the time, etc. They just did not want to pay.
I thought so too.
Yup.
you can pay in cash as well. the thing is the winner has to proof hes thge winner otherswise everyone could claim to be the winner and investigation would leave the lottery bankruped
At one point you couldn't buy tickets with a card, had to be cash only.
If I ever won the lottery, the first thing I'd do is pay my dad's house off, and then bank the rest and live off the interest as long as possible 😅
That's using your head.
@@The_Phoenix_Saga thank you ☺️
@@Corrie-Lee you're welcome, it's something a lot of people can't do.
@@The_Phoenix_Saga true. I think some people get too carried away and don't think of the future 💞
@@Corrie-Lee Most people don't have an original thought of their own - they don't get encouraged to think and plan ahead just as you say, leaving them directionless and capricious.
No wonder the majority of big game winners wind up back where they started.
I think with me if I won something stupid, I'd probably indulge on something big; say I won a hundred million, I'd go nuts with one, but then once that novelty was done I'd do as similar as you - throw it into savings and live on the interest.
The guy who kept leaving half a million in dollars in a suitcase in the car was a complete divvy, or as Be Amazed hilariously put it "He was also extremely charitable and not just to burglars" 😮😂😂😂😂
hes being nice to burglrs
He was an idiot..
“Professional huggers”, I love that job title! 🤣🤣🤣😭
I know, I was in stitches when I heard it and How he said it😂😂😂
Is it the oldest job in the world?
gotta keep it youtube ad-friendly somehow! 😂
That network joke was pretty good too 😂😂
@@BeAmazed baldi in one voadam vid: whoever threw that paper YOU'RE MOM'S A COW. Voadam: we have to make that family friendly guys
I can't imagine what that woman who placed her ticket in the washing machine is going through 😢
Probably a learning experience she apparently really needed in her life 😂
@@Jthanson88I feel for her😂
Probably not as bad as the guy that lost a hard drive containing bitcoins that would today total about a billion dollars. The lottery ticket is gone forever so you can at least take comfort in there being no hope. That hard drive is still out there somewhere. Just the thought of it existing in a pile of trash somewhere but you never being able to find it must keep you up at night.
I would have taken multiple photos and photocopies of my ticket. In addition, the original ticket would be like a second skin to me until I drove to the lottery office.
@@AlcoholicBoredom 😂😂
Be Amazed makes me amazed on how they can keep on making all these interesting videos
Exactly and hoping to bring in more suckers to buy tickets all because they think they'll be smarter than those that wasted it all away.
Lol!
I'm currently in complete bankruptcy. I'm not living on the street thanks to a friend that is almost as broken as I am. If I win the lottery, the day I cash out I would go to a good hotel for a good night sleep and meal (I haven't had one in years. I'm hungry all the time) Next day I'll take my beloved son to the movies, eat hamburgers and the toy store. On third day I would pay all my debts. Then I would have a four day holidays on the beach, just me, after which would buy a good functional car. Nothing fancy. With my mind in peace then I would buy a comfortable house (not a mansion but not too small either) I would have a barbecue with my closest and dearest friends on my new house, and then, finally would make a plan to keep the remaining money stable for the rest of my life ensuring a money trouble free life for my disabled son
Wow.. what a great human
What about the friend your staying with?
Honestly, I'd be terrified if I won the lottery. Where I live I can't take the prize anonymously and I'd be busy trying to hire an advisor and/or a lawyer while trying to close down ALL my current emails and current phone number while trying to get new ones. Etc... etc...
Where do you live?
Then just don’t buy a ticket.
Most of what you'd do, you SHOULD be doing, anyway. Investing with someone legit, like Fidelity. Having a decent car that's reliable and doesn't eat money. Either in gas or maintain. A decent house in a nice area where you're safe and have everything you need.
That's not a 4 million dollar house where the taxes are 40k.
Figure out what you'd need, invest wisely, do some math on what you spend NOW, and go from there, assuming at least 10% increases a year. Cut back wherever and whenever possible.
If you want something extreme RENT IT. DO NOT BUY IT. Think an RV or a Ferrari. Nobody needs either, and they EAT gas, never mind repair and insurance costs. A few days or a week would be plenty and it's not insanely expensive.
Last I checked, it was like 2,500. So, not cheap. But doable. Then, when it's 60k a year to run it (hello. Ferrari), that won't be your problem.
Track day is once around the track. That was maybe a few hundred bucks. Worth it.
@@tamilynnthill1910I'll bet California.
Evelyn seemed to not deserve to be called dumb, just a normal lottery victim that didn't draw the line on spending and giving to "needy" friends and family who want a slice of the pie.
Her investment in her kids schooling being considered a "failed" investment sounds like such a jab at her kid 😆
DONT CALL ME NEEDY!!!!
Me when I hit a lotto of $1B 😐
Me when I hit a 200 free cod points on the daily spin wheel😮🤪😦😭🤑
@@Phoenix4life-y69😂😂
Eww
She was a good person
I kinda feel bad for the old woman because she wanted to take her granddaughter to college but just ended up money laundering and spending it all
They bad
@@ayberos788forgot to switch accounts hmmm?
The old woman was scammed. The scammer was the thief and money launderer.
Be Amazed- “Nothing good comes out of doing the laundry”
Me- “Except clean clothes”
"For the love of money is the root of all evil"
Well said Paul, well said...
Money isn't the root of all evil. PEOPLE are! It's the person himself or herself that has that kind of attitude about money,that's the problem. It's like saying guns (themselves with nobody to hold on to it,and pull the trigger) don't kill people. PEOPLE with guns kill people.
@@Randy-tp5lmno one said money is the root of evil. LOVE for the money is.
@@Randy-tp5lm No, money isn't the root of all evil, you're right. The quote from St. Paul states that it's the love of money that's the root of all evil.
A girl in Australia put a pic of her winning horse race ticket on facebook.
And before she cashed it someone else had done so from the pic on FB.
That's just pure idiocy there.
Are you a Australian RUclips viewer.
damn, that's incredibly dumb🤦
She got attention. The thief got money. Both parties won.
@@BeAmazeddamn
The laws across the pond regarding minimum legal age to purchase lottery tickets must differ if Callie was only 16 when she won. At the very least, her parents should have put her winnings in an account to be secure and inaccessible until she turned 18 (or something)
I agree, she should have been set for life, even in an account with just 6% interest a year is over £100,000 and you are not touching your winnings.
Surely you can have a good time and pay your bills on £2000 a week.
Since October 2021 the law as changed for playing and you now need to be 18 years old instead of 16.
How do you know it would have made any difference? Most of the people who went broke are older than her. She would have wound up broke if she had been 21 when she won. Some people simply have no self control.
@@wildnfree101 What kind of account boasts "just 6%" ?? Where do you even find one of these, let alone more than 6% (since it's "just" 6%).
Also, although winnings are not subject to tax, the interest it generates is totally subject to it. And the government is taking a healthy 30+% of it.
Years ago i helped a young woman who won -(after taxes - $30,000). As a realtor, I found her a manufactured home in a park that fit her budget. Her credit wasn’t good and the park wouldn’t approve her because they were worried about her ability to pay the monthly fees. Also many family member were asking her to money. We brainstormed. To deal with both problems, she prepaid the park rent for several years and I helped her estimate what her monthly expenses might be. She then opened a separate savings account and deposited several years of future expenses plus some money for emergencies. She now knew how much money she had left to be comfortable helping others and felt she would be honest when she said NO -I can’t help. It was a valuable lesson for both of us
There was a case in th UK, where 2 men stole a debit card and won either 2 or 4 million on a scratchcard, using said debit card. When they called Camelot to secure their winnings, they were asked for bank account details so it could be deposited. They replied they didnt have an account, (which raised concerns due to the method in which they had bought the ticket), the jackpot payout was refused and i believe they were also charged with the theft. Not so much proof of karma existing, more so stupidity
No,it's karma.
Would've been a fun outcome if the owner of the stolen card had been awarded the winnings.
I think most people think they'd be more responsible with a lotto win than they actually would be. I imagine it's easy to get swept up in the sudden abundance.
Most people I talk to about it say they would throw a massive party, then set themselves up with a home and a car, pay off debts and help out family and friends, then travel and live off the rest, but most of those conversations assumes a massive windfall - more than 10 million dollars. A lot of jackpot wins come in between 1-5 million dollars (I'm in Australia), so by the time you've bought yourself a house (between $450 000 - $1 500 000 depending on proximity to the city) and a car ($15 000 - $50 000, more if you want new) a good chunk of that is gone. You've also likely got debts to pay off which might be a few grand, or over 100k, and if you won just 1 million and were very conservative with the previous, you might have enough for a holiday and to cover bills for a while, but you'd be realistically needing to go back to work. If you had a bit more, you could probably afford to help out friends and family a bit too, but realistically? That money is gone. It's still a life-changing amount, sure, but with how expensive everything is? It's not a setup for a luxury lifestyle, it might just help ease some of the crippling financial burden.
Even with a much bigger windfall, if you are concerned with helping your family and loved ones also get set up and debt free, a lot of that money is going to go and fast. You also can't dismiss the drama that comes with money - it really makes people show their true colours.
Um, your 2nd and 3rd items are the reason why so many go broke: they buy ginormous houses that they can't afford to maintain and start acquiring luxury cars to the point that some angered their neighbors. The neighbors complain to the police that their cars are taking up all the lanes in front of their houses!
@@largol33t12 I'm just talking about a 2-3 bedroom home and a standard new-not-used car. You can get a 3-bedroom shoebox of a house for around $450 000, but if you want to be close to public transport, in a good neighbourhood or closer into the city, you're looking at closer to $800 000. If you want to be inner city with a family home, you're up to around $1.5 million.
For a car that is new or has less than 50 000 kms on it, you're starting at $30 000 - that's for an automatic vehicle targeted at families.
So at the lower end of that spectrum, you've got a family home on a block of units and a sedan with 50 000 kms on it for just shy of $500 000 - out of a small jackpot win of say, $1 million, that's half gone before you even look at paying off student debts, credit card debts or think about holidays. It's still a lifechanging situation for most people who would never be able to dream of buying their own property ever (I'm in that category) but it's not nearly the luxury lifestyle that that sort of money is still promoted as.
@@Bookluver29 The point I'm trying to say is that too many of these lottery winners start out fine then their spending goes completely out of control. None of the lottery winners who are broke bought an AVERAGE size house like you suggested. They instead took out a mortgage on a $2 million 5,000 sq ft house with swimming pool and 4 car garage! And that's after buying 2-3 luxury cars!
@@largol33t12 That's fair, and I agree that the examples shown in this video back that - my main point was that you don't have to hit those levels of extremes to find yourself in debt or to burn through a lottery win very easily. It's just more entertaining to focus on the ones who went really off the rails.
*💀💀💀"Imagine you went down to see your family only to see your sons girlfriend use your credit card and your lottery ticket"💀💀💀*
Lol
She be dead
What I wonder is why the money went to the police and not the family who's dead mothers credit card was used to purchase it. I mean were they just left with the debt while the police binged on donuts and coffee?
bro i would be fucking mad if my sons gf stole my credit card
The problem here is, in some states (countries), it is legally required to have your name and contact info PUBLICLY AVAILABLE if you win the lottery. People will look you up, and do whatever they can to take a piece of the win away from you. I don't even want to know how many frivalouse law suites there are against lottery winners....with the one suing pushing to simply have it "settled out of court."...aka....they win.
Just drag it out as long as possible. They can't afford 300/hr for long.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 I never understood why some lottery winners who KNOW they did nothing illegal/morally wrong settle out of court. Hire a lawyer and countersue. The other party won't have $200 an hour to hire a good lawyer anyway so it's a matter of numbers...
It's criminal that the police department took his money
Well thats life
The son should have got the money.
I think the most heartbreaking of all of these was the woman at 4:20 who put her winning ticket in the wash.
I grew up near Whittaker, and a mutual friend said that the briefcase full of money was stolen out of his car while he was in a strip club. They said he was a big spender there, and would go out to his car to get more cash when he ran out in the club, which is how people there knew he kept cash in his car. They also said that it happened more than once that money was stolen out of his car during his visits to the club.
As another saying goes. “A fool and its money are soon parted.”
Its? Fools are not inanimate objects. "A fool and HIS money are soon parted."
Hi be amazed! I love your videos keep up the amazing work❤❤❤
At least some of those winners actually helped some people.
Something many people don’t usually do
Like Mrbeast
Yeah
I don't know if you covered this one before, but there was a lottery winner notorious in Britain some years back that the papers dubbed "The Lottery Lout" and "King Chav". He was a construction worker who won the lottery jackpot. As a result, he quit his job, bought a mansion and used the land to host go karting and parties on the regular. Eventually, between his expenses and whatever else, he soon blew through his winnings in a matter of months before having to beg for his old job back. When he was questioned, the Lout said "If I could, I would do it all again" which is indeed stupid, but at the same time, fair play
It's amazing how these Lottery winners manage to piss away their winnings.
The man from West Virginia should have put half of his money I his bank card
Congratulations on your success I was and still am one of your oldest subscriber and great to see your success and hard work ❤
Me too 😀
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I thought I was the oldest subscriber at the age of 64 😂😅!
@@erjatikka3029 🤣❤️
Didn't George Best say: 'I spent a lot of money on women, booze and fast cars, I wasted the rest.'
Love your video Be Amazed and keep up the great work
Less money, less solutions. Money is the solution to everything, except stupidity.
About 30 years ago, rumors were circulating about a guy who won "several" million dollars in the State Lotto. He always dreamed of being a cowboy, so he built a huge log cabin (with all the bells and whistles), two oversized pickup trucks, and built a barn for four horses, then bought the horses. Two years later, everything went to auction. The guy was never heard from again. ( I know this, because I passed that guy's place everyday on my way to work.)
What are considered bells and whistles in a log cabin? A flush toilet and eeelectricity? 😆
If you need a comparison , imagine you're 7 and grandma gives you 25 dollars
Thanks for that, helped a lot to show the sheer amount of money that is
Winning the lottery seems to be a curse. You lose family/friends, you lose yourself and the ACTUAL money itself.
Bud’s story: and I thought I was bad with money.
Next video should be about those who spent their winnings responsibly.
Back in 2017 in South Africa we had a huge powerball jackpot about $15 500 000 for a Saturday night draw and on Monday someone claimed to have a winning ticket, after some time the national lottery found out that the winning numbers were played on the Sunday after the draw.
How!? Someone must have fiddled with the cash register. That's unbelievable. (I believe _you_ I'm just in disbelief about how it happened!)
@@y_fam_goeglyd, I believe if you pick your own numbers it will go through nonetheless, the guy just didn't think they would check the time and date, he didn't get any money and got banned from claiming anything from the national lottery for 5 years
watching people losing so much money like that is painful
I would rather use money wisely.
Jack Whittaker's lottery story is even more tragic than the video suggests. While he was fending off sexual harassment lawsuits, his son in law died of a drug overdose in his house. It ALMOST makes me wonder if lottery winners are right claiming there is a lottery curse...
"Adult refreshments" LOL
"Professional 'huggers'"
Money doesn't change people it only reveals them.
I don't know why it feels satisfying watching people do dumb mistakes
Probably because we all like to think we would do better, which makes us feel smarter. Truth is, no one can really know untess they actually win.
Can you make a video of the most dangerous and deadliest jobs ever ❤ also love your videos
Great timing with the powerball and mega millions drawing 😂😂😂
Really when is it lol
875,000,000 and 640,000,000 jackpots
@@derekagard I think it’s still going I didn’t hear of anyone winning the jackpot.
Some people really do the dumbest things after they've gained the limelight and wealth
How do you lose 314 million dollars in 4 years? That is an average of losing 10 dollars PER SECOND.
If I won a big jackpot I think I would spend some on random acts of kindness
I would actually take 75% of the money and give it to charity (human and animal welfare) and let my family take the other 24% with me getting 1% to buy socks
I am 11 yes ssoooo 15%charity 30%for family and 45% for games and stuff
What type of game?@@hunterchichester5720
Really love how you covered up Michael Carroll’s nipples with gold coins, lol! If I had seen his nips, I would have been SHOCKED 😳 😂
It's illegal to buy lotto tickets with credit cards. It won't even ring up. I call BS
It is now, but was it then 2005? And in that state?
I do remember getting declined the ticket with my card in NJ 2010+. I had to clear out my order to pay for the ticket with my change. And then do a separate transaction for my other products.
I'd probably be like the lady who accidentally put her lottery ticket through the wash... I don't usually check my pockets before putting my laundry in, let alone putting it in the dryer too.
Anyway, there would be a lot of things I'd do if I won the lottery, but for the most part it would go to charities like boys & girls club, children's hospital, little people's club and leukemia lymphoma society. All of which I've donated to a bit of money when I can.
Stay frosty and stay safe!
i never leave anything in my clothes pockets, just my coat pockets. and i don't wash them often. lol
If they want money, they should go to their CEO. Go look up what THOSE guys get!
If I were to win 2 lottery tickets I will save rather than spend.
Be amazed coughing the words he was women for profesional huggers made me laughing
I was reading an article about this couple who hit 4 million and were crying how you couldn't "live" off of 4 mil in this economy and how sometimes they wish they never won and they could go back to working, like our hearts were supposed to bleed for them, you didn't have to quit your job and their biggest complaint was because they couldn't travel the world like they thought they could
Meanwhile, that amount for me would probably enable me to retire, set up a secure investment fund, and live off the interest for the rest of my life. If I had a handful of millions, I'm confident I'd know how to maintain it without going broke. If I won hundreds of millions, I'm less sure I'd keep my good sense. I like to think I would, but everyone who's ever won the lottery seems to feel the same way until they actually do.
Suffice it to say, I don't think anyone should be complaining about cost of living or wishing they could go back to work (because what's stopping them from finding a job?) after winning millions. If they invested even half of that money, it's possible they could still live their world adventuring dreams someday. It just wouldn't happen immediately. Plus, if the cost of living really is an issue where they've chosen to live (especially if they had a lavish home built for themselves, compounding the problem through taxes and upkeep), they can probably find a place where the cost of living is lower.
I have a list of things I would attend to if I were to win. However, knowing myself, I'm sure I would eventually go off the deep end and end up penniless... just as I am now.
Rule 1 dont buy a expensive house or fancy cars.
Rule 2 dont go shopping spree like you got a unlimited debit card
At least the one guy gave a chunk to charity, I think he deserves more respect?
Well the CEO of the charity will be happy with his extra bonus this year.
Lawyer up, find a reputable accounting firm, don't gamble, don't do drugs, don't drink heavy, stick to a budget, learn to say "NO", and don't make any financial decisions without consulting you lawyers and accounting team. Lottery win or high paying job, this will help you keep your money
Anybody else want to win so they can go save all the homeless people? If I won, (finally bought a ticket), I found many young families that deserve WAY better. I wanna be santa.❤
But then again, Be Amazed also had a video about fake homeless people not just in America
@@charliejoson9145 things keep up and nobody will have to fake it...
Yeah, NO. Don't go there. It's always kids who haven't seen some shite like old people have.
They're like friggin pigeons. You'll give abd they'll p*ss it away and come back and back and back to mooch more and NEVER get a better job or training to do so!
City colleges are RIGHT THERE. Free!! Sally is RIGHT THERE. Never help any adult do stuff they CAN and SHOULD do themselves!
It will NOT pay off. Trust the old people. You'd just be buying drugs.
If I had 314 million dollars. I would use it wisely so that I won't end up like these people.
My old teacher once won the lottery, he won £5
Lol
I have never understood why i have to share my winnings with my partner
18:50 she won the lottery on September 11
How can Evelyn be broke if she opted for $218,000 yearly payments instead of lump sum? Why the hell would you do that anyway, if you're in your 50's?
If I'd won the lottery, I'd largely just try to use it to survive, pay off debts, etc. If I have money left over from that, though, then I might go for a few things that I want. Of course, I never did trust gambling or the lottery by any means, though, with stories like these being exactly why, so while you can't win it without doing it, you also can't lose everything in an addiction to it without doing it. I just don't see the reward being worth the immense risk.
I do not understand how these people don’t immediately think about how they could make more money off their winnings. You were literally handed a free ride to wealth to make even more money easily.
This makes me realize even more how many scumbags are in the world
There’s a lot. Few billion
@@Jthanson88 many billions
If I won, I put most of it in a savings account, pay off any bills I had, invest half, and buy a lot of dogs and cats. Better than leaving them in shelters.
I won a lottery with a max price of 9k - it was a cheap $1 ticket from a gas station - and I won an astonishing $1 from it, at least I didn't end up losing any money 🤣
Money doesn't corrupt people, it exposes who they truly are.
I won 5 dollars on a scratching card, took my prize and never gambled again...
The one that boils my blood is the woman who bought the lottery ticket with her boyfriend's dead mother's credit card. The money should've become inheritance and given to her son, not taken by the police.
Beyond that, it's sad that so many of these people don't think about the future. A few of them did, but not in a proper way. While some indulgences (at least of the legal variety like the houses and cars) are fine, they should've been setting aside a good portion of those winnings to live off of.
2:53 THATS MY SISTER FIRST NAME
Lesson: You sometimes don't know what you're doing.
I have always been very careful with my money. I had to be since I raised my 3 children on my own with no help from anyone. I was not one to ask or borrow money from anyone and only had minimum wage jobs. Paying my rent, food, then things for my children didn't leave any money for me. I went to second hand stores to buy my clothes, but I tried to buy better clothes for my children so they wouldn't be laughed at at school like I was by wearing hand-me-downs when I was growing up. My son died suddenly last year of a heart attack. He was only 37 years old. I had a 30 thousand dollars insurance on him which I haven't even touched yet which I had been paying for since he was 12 years old. I'm scared to touch it in case in the future an emergency pops up and I would be in need of it. If I ever won it rich I would not give any money to any of my family members except for maybe 1 brother because he is like me and would bend over backwards to help someone. The only time I would see a family member is when they wanted something and never gave anything in return. They would come to my town to visit their friends but never stop off to say hi to me. I would also help out the one true friend I had for the past 35 years. Though I only get to see her maybe once every 5 years now since we live in different provinces now, she has never used me and we both know that no matter what, we are there for each other. She is like me, a hard worker. All I really want is a small cabin in the woods by a lake or river with a wood stove and of course the internet. LOL I love exploring the woods and fishing. =)
Put it in mutual funds w Fidelity, Charles Schwab...You'll get interest. Then roll that interest back into the investment.
The thumbnail is hilariously funny omg😂
I like how its a fact that every lottery winner became fat
I guess when you have the money you can eat as much tasty food as you want? Plus to be fair, stress definitely will cause you to gain a lot of weight even if you don't stress eat. The way most of them lost their winnings, it sounds like they were very stressed.
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Excuse me but, how do you explain that in my country, every now and then we read on the news that someone has won the lottery, but we NEVER read about someone who's been crushed by a meteor?
The best part about these type of stories is that if any one of us wins the lottery we have the knowledge to not make these exact same mistakes, now that Biden's plan to eliminate student debt got canceled the first thing I'm gonna do is pay it off, it's the only way I can... and that will be my only chance too 😓💸🏢
Imagine finding yourself in these kind of videos. You are lucky and unlucky at the same time.
Being close to winning and not winning reminded me of a stag do I went to, me and some friends went to a horse racing place and we pooled our money together on a bet, and chose a horse together, and my bro went and placed the bet, but when he got back we realised we didn't have the 10 to 1 bet slip we wanted, but instead the woman had given him a different 100 to 1 bet slip, so we quickly ran back and swapped our bet to the 1 we actually wanted just before the bets were closed, we watched her rip up the old bet and throw it in the bin, IMAGINE our luck, the 100 to 1 horse won ... we would have won like £3000, we were so annoyed with ourselves
Poor people will always work very hard to remain poor regardless of their bank accounts.
Oof, I crinched when the anonymous lady lost her lottery ticket in the laundry. 😱😰😬😵😩😞😖. If I won the lottery, I'd get a house away from too many people and enjoy the peace of the country side as I did during my childhood. I would also travel to certain places I've dreamed of seeing for real, mostly natural landmarks.
Sounds like heaven. Living in paradise. To away from the increasing human population that's so annoying nowdays,is priceless.
Living in the countryside isn't easy if you don't have protection from the people that'd want to do you harm.
County police aren't always reliable.
And there will always be people that are either curious or nosy.
It's easier to live on a ranch.
And to have trusted helpers.
@@Randy-tp5lm There are a LOT more harmful people in cities than there are in the country.
this is the official- I miss the old intro button
I wish I won in a lottery someday
Just remember folks always take a picture of your tickets front and back
I edited my lottery ticket It was the winning of 200 million😂
Getting married in general is crazy but 6 times 😭😭
Can’t make me feel bad haha I would love to win the lotto. I feel like the wrong kind of people win except for that little old lady that got swindled. Her heart was in the right place
If I was lucky enough to win the lottery Id pay for my aunt's house to get full repairs
Damn, that lady took money laundering to a whole new level 😂 that would be beyond horrible, she probably off'd herself
Chill
I think every lottery story is a cautionary tale.
If i had to lose it all michael carroll's way is how to do it. dude lived it 100%
You know what i would buy if i ever win any lotteries? I would buy a garden tractor and a trailer for it. That's literally everything i would buy if i ever win a lottery.
Money comes and goes. Being very responsible is a goal and the people who lost it all are probably sorry, but on the other hand if you got to do things and have adventures you would never have been able to experience, esp while being young and healthy enough to enjoy it…well all we really take to our graves is the life we lived, not our bank account.
No matter who get the check, the one who win the lottery is actually IRS